Hey everyone, I am new to the forums but not to jacks stories. I just wanted to send a shout out and say hello to all those out there that have found and enjoyed the books as much as me. I dont know about you guys but from the first book i read, which happened to be legacies due to the fact I didnt know it wasnt the first book in the series, I have been captivated by all that is jack. Its funny how much I can relate to him and the stories and how entertaining they are.

My first big question for the masses is how did you discover jack and what was your initial feelings during and after the first read. For me I was walking through a barnes and noble while visiting another state trying to find a new read when I found legacies and for some reason or another was drawn to it. While I read it and even afterwards I was completely drawn in by how jack dealt with situations, the humor, and the way i could relate to him. After reading the first book I knew this was the book to start a series I have been waiting for. The repairman jack series is by far my favorite and most enjoyable series. Anyways, glad to see so many others out there have found what I call a diamond in the rough.

Unlikelyhero

All of this talk about Hosts in the comic thread got me thinking. Have you ever been in a weird situation which after the fact you realize was straight outta a Jack book?

Example: About a year and a half ago the Tina and I were on the subway in NYC. We were with the mutual friends who set us up. One is from Jersey but now a New Yorker and the other born in NYC. Both are your usual yuppie sheep ( nice sheep though).

Well, we're on a the car for a bit, all standing, when I notice a guy a little up the car from me leaning against the doors taking everybody in. He's trying very badly to blend in. I notice several things about him. A buldge on his ankle, and a lump under his shirt, mid chest.Then I realize why he's leaning back to the doors. He's got a lump at the small of his back.

I think oh shit, then take a second look. The lump under his shirt on his chest is a badge. He's a transit cop. He catches my eye and I give him a big grin, then go back to no expression. He closes his eyes and gives a slight smile and an almost non-existent nod. He goes back to taking everybody else in.

Then, outta nowhere comes this shouting and cursing from the front of the car. There's a black transient shouting at everybody, cursing them all out, shouting something about they don't appreciate what they have and invoking God alot. He wants money obviously.

In typical Ewe fashion everybody shuts up, looks straight forward and won't acknowledge his presence. This is making him get more out of control. He is hitting the walls and gradually pacing up and down the car, getting ever closer.

I calmly without saying a word step in front of Tina, and the couple we were with. I push them back behind me with a nudge.

The guy is past the undercover and now coming towards us. It was raining so I have a long umbrella with a pointy metal tip. I casually aim it upwards at an angle, glancing at the cop who's eye catches the movement and again nods once.

Now the man is in front of me, directing his rant at myself. I smile and fish a dollar outta my pocket and give it to the man, agreeing with him verbally that people do not appreciate what god gives them blah blah blah. The man settles down, turns to the others on the train and says something about 'one righteous man among many!' Says god bless me and I return the phrase, and the man leaves the car.

The cop gives me a quick smile and goes back to his routine. The girl who is with Tina and I gets on my case saying i shouldn't have given him anything, blah blah blah. She never seemed to realize that the whole time I was talking to the nut he was too distracted by my voice to realize my umbrella tip was at his throat.

F*ckin sheep.

Have you ever had a moment like this?

Are there any Jack fan films out there? Would I be crazy in attempting to make a cheap one?

Well, no big surprise, I checked out the new X-Files Movie
This past Friday Afternoon (Hi. My name is Mike Hanson and
I am an X-Files addict.).

What can I say...this is certainly the closest that Chris Carter
has come to "aping" The Silence of The Lambs since the TV
show first aired over a decade ago.

"I Want To Believe" follows the same basic structure of the Jodi
Foster/Anthony Hopkins breakout film with haunting familiarity,
the only problem being that Lambs was a brilliant script that worked
as both a daring chess game thriller and a wonderful celluloid
palette that introduced us to new and complex characters.

Here, we "already" know as much about the two leads as we
do about ourselves (9 seasons and one motion picture anyone?).
What new depth to their souls can be plumbed? The answer. None.
Just the same old tired ground of Scully's sense of faith and Mulder's
sense of duty.

The 30 million dollar budget (something I did not read about until
"after" I saw the film) is quite evident not only in uninspired set
pieces and endless snowy woodscape, but in the rather boring
peripheral cast, which consists of a lot of B-Level actors giving
paper thin performances. Come on, Amanda Peet and Billy Connolly?!

The plotline of this would-be edgy thriller comes off more as checker
game than chess match. The basic premise is that an FBI agent has been
kidnapped/taken by a presumed serial killer and so the clock is ticking.
Aided by a ridiculously flawed former-Priest psychic (Connolly), Mulder and
Scully, now reduced to unemployed citizen and mercy hospital doctor,
are unofficial "consultants" to two FBI Special Agents (doe-eyed Peet
and mustache-challenged rapper Xzibit).

And then there is the Scully "B"-story, an angst-filled and tedious
soap opera distraction which drains nine-tenths of the looming dread
right out of this drama.

The x-file-ish punchline in the end comes right from a discovery channel
expose on weird medical experiments I watched just one year ago.
It'll raise your eyebrow and then be quickly laughed off.

As a one-off, all by itself, this flick just does not carry the load.

And as for all the talk of "stand alone episode" and "TV series continuity
nonexistent"...yes, it is all true. As much as I had originally felt
the series mythology was the wrong way to go with the first movie,
the now overwhelming revelations of the last few TV series
season 9 episodes make a stand alone movie like this, ultimately,
pointless.

I give this dragging popcorn flick TWO out of five cans of diet cherry
vanilla Dr. Pepper.

Mike out

Hi everyone!

I was just doin some browsing on IMDB and found a link for a movie called "Repairman"!

It certainly could pass for a Jack book cover, with the silouhette and all...

No info on it yet, but I was hoping... then I found the website for a movie called Repairman that will have nothing to do with it. Unless Jack has taken up surfing lately...

Still... I hope...

Just wondering, seeing as I'm likely not to get any sleep tonight, which of the novels was your first? By which I mean, which one of the books precipitated your transition from RJ virgin to full-blown Jackaholic? (Forgive me if this is a repeat of another thread.)

As for me, I was very fond of Masque before I'd even heard of the RJ books, but one day I was surfing the library shelves and the bright green of Hosts caught my eye. I kind of wish I could recapture that feeling of simply jumping into the series without any background knowledge of the previous books; other than a few references to "that event", it was fairly stand-alone. And it was early enough that the meaning of certain motifs, like women with dogs, wasn't as imperative to my understanding.

If you'll recall, Hosts also starts out from the POV of a character other than RJ, which added to the unsettling feeling of reading out of order. I can't quite remember what I thought about it, except that I must have liked it enough to immediately borrow the whole series. I guess for me, you could say Hosts was a "Gateway" novel, har dee har.

And then after I was hooked, I'd fully read up to Haunted Air before even getting my hands on a copy of The Tomb, because the library had every book except the first one So it was very interesting to read the series backwards like I did. The characters and events are revealed in a slightly skewed manner that you wouldn't get from reading them chronologically. Of course I'm forced to go at them in order from now on, since whenever a new one comes out I read it immediately!

This comes out next year. I am so there!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmG7c1u6C

sigh....again...just type Zelda in the top box and the trailer will come up

RJ fanart, updates on first page always.


Pic 1: Rakosh mini-wallpaper
Pic 2: Jack running w/ necklace
Pic 3: Rakosh, back
Pic 4: Rakosh, still
Pic 5: Rakosh, walk
Pic 6: Jack in the Barrens

DISCLAIMER: Everything in this post is a work of fan art only; all characters and events portrayed are F. Paul Wilson's. However, I am the creator of the images themselves, and they are meant only to be enjoyed by the forum-goers of this site. Indeed.

Email from Stacy (my editor's assistant) with 4 covers of special $4.99 editions of my backlist. I didn’t know this was in the offing. Or maybe I just forgot. Whatever, it puts IMPLANT and DEEP AS THE MARROW (with new covers) back in the racks along with LEGACIES and GATEWAYS. This worked out very well with THE TOMB, THE KEEP, ALL THE RAGE back in ’06.

No change in the LEGACIES and GATEWAYS covers, but here's what the other 2 will look like:

I'm becoming a big fan of writer/director Vincenzo Natali. His first film has become a cult classic and with a very small budget managed to create a claustrophobic thriller with Cube. (Forget the sequels... he had nothing to do with them.)

His third film is a comedic-mystery called Nothing. (I can't comment on his second feature, Cypher, as I've not seen it.) Again shot in a low budget style, Nothing is about two friends who want to disappear. One is a shut-in that is being threatened by a girl scout's mother because her daughter claims he tried to kiss her (he didn't), while the other is wanted by the FBI for embezzling money from his employer (it was his girlfriend of two weeks). And now the city has condemned their home that sits between two major highways.

At the tipping point when everyone is ganging up on them the world outside suddenly disappears. Except for their home and yard the world is nothing but white emptiness. They explore their surroundings, documenting their "discovery", as well as get on each others nerves.

Nothing is a fun film for people who like a mishmash of comedy, science fiction and mystery. It's well worth the rental.